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to North America's eastern region and the societies that forever changed its landscape …

Foodways have been a component of archaeological research for decades. However,
cooking and food preparation, as specific acts that could reveal social information about life …

This chapter assesses the impacts of chronic warfare on the everyday lives of people living
in the thirteenth-and fourteenth-century CE Central Illinois River Valley (CIRV) through the …

We investigated how Mississippian residents of the Central Illinois River Valley (CIRV)
altered their hunting strategies in response to climate change and warfare in the 13th and …

Cahokia's cultural influence altered patterns of social organization throughout the Midwest,
and this complex historical process warrants further interregional research. Ramey Incised …

Although it is now commonplace for archaeologists to study use-alteration patterns on
ceramics, the same cannot be said of one of the most ubiquitous classes of hunter-gatherer …

Built in the early 18th century on the banks of the Saint-François River (Quebec, QC,
Canada), the fortified Jesuit mission of Saint-François-de-Sales was an important Abenaki …

I was a sophomore history student at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
in Brazil when I started my training in lithic analysis in May 2005. At NuPArq (Núcleo de …

We explore the population history of Cahokia relative to local and regional climatological
conditions to better understand the factors that may have contributed to the migration of …

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